Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe’s graphics.

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(III) – Kjell Widlert. The judge for Retro and PG problems2013 – 2014 – Hans Gruber.

“It has increased up to almost 500 mate- and selfmate- pieces, nearly each with new, improved and enriched commentaries. (Additionally there are to be found ca. 100 mate-pieces of my friends Gerald Sladek, Werner Schmoll and, nowadays, Alois Nichtawitz).”

16-23rd of November, 2014: IMITATOR

(23.11) No.648 – Stephan Dietrich – A nice serial play with three Knights followed by two Imitators!

(21.11) No.647 – Peter Harris – Two Imitators in a problem with a different stipulations in three phases!

An interesting fact about the inventor of Imitator: Gerrit Jansen (a pseudonym used by Theodorus Kok) presented the Imitator in the Fairy Chess Review, which was at that time edited by Thomas Dawson. → Read more in the Forum…

(19.11) No.646 – Julia Vysotska – Imitator and nQ – mate by the one neutral piece in two phases!

(18.11) No.645 – Peter Harris – Imitator in the interesting Tanagra where the both sides have only a pair K+Q!

(16.11) No.644 – Stephan Dietrich– Imitator in a long serial play with surprising final!

(16.11) No.643 – Juraj Lörinc– Original usage of two Imitators with AUW!

Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe’s graphics.

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(III) – Kjell Widlert. The judge for Retro and PG problems2013 – 2014 – Hans Gruber.

It is happened that after publishing No.638 I’ve started to discover IMITATOR for myself. I haven’t used it before, and to my surprise I’ve found it very interesting and really enjoy learning about it – from the definitions and inventor till the features and implementations.

I’ve decided to write about it in the Forum as it is a separated theme, related mostly to the Imitator in general, but not to the published original. Also, what I’ve discovered is not an article yet, but just some thoughts and ideas. I’d like to find even more with your help!

As I said, I think it’s good to use Forum for such thematic postings, but if anybody feels uncomfortable about registration for using Forum, you are welcome to leave your comments here, to this posting! Thank you! – Julia.

(09.11) No.639 – Peter Harris – Tanagra-Aristocrat with an interesting play of the Royal Queens! A rare case: Peter’s problem without fairy conditions! 🙂

(07.11) Py2Web – A new version of the program allows to show the departure square for the move, like instead of 2.g4 it can show 2.g2-g4. Dear authors, you’d help me a lot if you send me numbers of your problems (or links to them) and moves needed to be shown with their departure square in the animated solution! As I remember it was needed for Back-to-Back condition and somewhere also…

(02.11) No.638 – Oliver Sick – What happens if there’re more than one Imitator on the board?

(01.11) No.637 – Peter Harris – Interesting thematic mates to the both Royal Pieces – rR in (a) and rR+rB in (b)!

Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe’s graphics.

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(III) – Kjell Widlert. The judge for Retro and PG problems2013 – 2014 – Hans Gruber.

A magazine has to publish originals. The composers ask the awards, otherwise don’t send other originals. To have the awards, the judges are necessary.Accordingly my appeal, published on this site (thanks Julia!).